Random thoughts from last night:
The reception to Roman Reigns winning on Sunday is going to be... not good if last night was any indication. Not sure how it came across on TV, but it seemed like he was getting 80/20 boos/cheers during Raw, and was pretty much entirely booed when he came up during a Wrestlemania promo video they showed before Raw started. There were a fair amount of kids/women with Roman Reigns shirts and/or signs though.
Obviously we all marked out when Taker's music hit to start the show, but Shane was definitely getting a bigger reaction. Curious to see how their match goes on Sunday.
New Day were way over, and I'm glad we got a good promo out of them for the first time in a couple weeks.
That six man tag match went one segment too long, they definitely started losing the crowd. Kevin Owens really is great at his job though. At one point during a commercial break the crowd started doing the wave (and were being egged on by Ziggler and the faces). KO grabbed a mic and said "Alright, everyone who loves Michael Cole's announcing do the wave" and immediately shut it down. Lots of great little character work from him on the apron as well (e.g. acting pleasantly surprised and complimenting Miz any time he did something right).
That said, I hate the way they've booked Owenz-Zayn over the last week. I would have much rather had them not really get physical at all until Mania, and even then have them start out separate in the ladder match. Then you'd have that moment where the two of them clear everyone else out of the ring and look at each other and just start throwing fists. Instead we got to watch Sami get his hands on KO, hit him with the Helluva Kick, and pin him clean already. Waste.
During one of the commercial breaks they did a bit where Lillian narrated as they showed a bunch of the fan signs up on the Titantron. One of the best reactions was for an Enzo and Cass sign, which has me hopeful for their main roster run. I hope they debut on the post Mania Raw, the pop would be huge. Now that New Day are faces, not sure who they'd feud with first though. Dudleys maybe?
Poor Byron Saxton, not only does he not have his own entrance (he has to come out with Michael Cole, entering to a shower of boos), but as soon as JBL came down he starting slapping Byron around with his hat (which I admit got a chuckle out of me).
Lastly, wrestling fans really are the worst sometimes. A lot of the CM Punk chants were originated not too far from where I was sitting, and it was so aggravating. Dude's been gone for two years already... get over it. I don't even mind if you want to get that going in the middle of an exceptionally shitty/boring segment, but busting it out every time there's a moment of quiet is lame as hell. And there was one guy a few seats from me wearing a Punk shirt who stood up and looked around trying to get attention every damn time. Everyone else sitting down by where I was also seemed as focused on getting on camera or taking selfies with superstars in the background as they were watching the damn show.
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